Each book centers on the plight of a spirited man or woman fighting to overcome some impossible challenge. Whittington’s novels were published in a low-cost format, but his writing was of a consistently high quality. Sold in drugstores and bus stations, most Whittington novels were priced at a quarter or 35 cents. Their bright, flimsy covers featured impossibly voluptuous women and scenes of wild mayhem. Whittington was a writer of so-called “paperback originals.” Never published in prestigious hardcover, his books were printed instead on cheap brown paper made from wood pulp (the source of the term “pulp fiction”). He wrote over 170 novels and was born 100 years ago in Ocala.
Who will replace him?įor my two cents, we should take time to remember a great Florida writer, Harry Whittington. 5 Sun story notes the statue of the Confederate general in our nation’s Capitol may soon be replaced by that of another Floridian.
Edmund Kirby Smith has left the building.
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